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2.5.0 Update Patch Notes

John_RE 2025-11-20 18:03

Today’s update includes our top-requested feature – Achievements for both Steam and GoG. You can find a full list of the Achievements and their descriptions below. Additionally, this patch improves the Mission Editor for modders and addresses several gameplay bugs and issues for our more competitively minded players. This includes fixes for jump movement, grenades, Necron generators, and several flame weapons and flame FX such as the Immolator.  Many of the fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your feedback, so please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com.    Achievements!  Our team is excited to release 109 new achievements for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. These achievements were inspired in part by requests from the Community, in addition to some fun ones we have come up with ourselves. We hope you enjoy unlocking all of them!  Please note: to bring achievements to Dawn of War - Definitive Edition, we needed to dig in and track progress across the game. With a 20-year-old game as our starting point, we did not have much in the way of existing stat tracking to use, so we had to add that in this latest patch to support Achievements. Any previous play time will not contribute to earning achievements - you are largely starting fresh with this update.    One partial exception is campaign-completion achievements, which are awarded when you finish the campaign, not working through the entirety of it. You do not need to replay the entire campaign to gain its completion achievement. If you have an existing save or have the final mission unlocked, you can simply replay that mission to earn it.    [table equalcells="1" colwidth=","]Achievement Name  Description  [p align="justify"]There Is Only War  Play a match of any type  Death, War and Blood  Win a match of any type  Our Prey Is Near  Win a skirmish match as Chaos  We are the Lords of Despair  Win a skirmish match as Dark Eldar  Victory is Our Fate  Win a skirmish match as Eldar  Glory For The First Man To Die!  Win a skirmish match as Imperial Guard  The Galaxy is Ours  Win a skirmish match as Necrons  Orks is da biggest and da strongest!  Win a skirmish match as Orks  A Small Mind Is Easily Filled With Faith  Win a skirmish match as Sisters of Battle  For the Emperor!  Win a skirmish match as Space Marines  Victory is the Reward of Unity  Win a skirmish match as Tau Empire  Do you hear the voices too??  Win a multiplayer match as Chaos  Power From Pain  Win a multiplayer match as Dark Eldar  I Have Already Seen Our Victory  Win a multiplayer match as Eldar  Only in Death Does Duty End  Win a multiplayer match as Imperial Guard  We Awaken Once More  Win a multiplayer match as Necrons  If We Win, We Win. If We Die, We Die Fightin’  Win a multiplayer match as Orks  Faith Without Deeds is Worthless  Win a multiplayer match as Sisters of Battle  Victory Needs No Explanation, Defeat Allows None  Win a multiplayer match as Space Marines  For The Greater Good  Win a multiplayer match as Tau Empire  Purity of Purpose  Achieve an Annihilate victory  Identify and Eliminate  Achieve an Assassinate victory  We Claim This World as Our Own  Achieve a Control Area victory  We Stand. They Do Not.  Achieve a Destroy HQ victory  Raising the Tithe  Achieve an Economic victory  They Stood No Chance  Achieve a Take and Hold victory  We Alone Will Remain  Achieve a Sudden Death victory  All Out War  Complete the Dawn of War campaign  Blood and Frost  Complete the Winter Assault Order campaign as Imperial Guard  The Cold Means Nothing  Complete the Winter Assault Order campaign as Eldar  WAAAGH!  Complete the Winter Assault Chaos campaign as Orks.  We Revel in Their Defeat  Complete the Winter Assault Chaos campaign as Chaos  Heresy. Purged.  Capture the Chaos Stronghold in Dark Crusade  Break the Xenos  Capture the Eldar Stronghold in Dark Crusade  Fools Blinded by a Dead God  Capture the Imperial Stronghold in Dark Crusade  Entombed Once More  Capture the Necron Stronghold in Dark Crusade  Nothing but Rubble  Capture the Ork Stronghold in Dark Crusade  Gates Unbarred and Unguarded  Capture the Marine Stronghold in Dark Crusade  Diplomacy is Temporary. War is Not.  Capture the Tau Stronghold in Dark Crusade  Chaos Undivided  Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Chaos  Do Not Pity the Mon-Keigh  Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Eldar  The Emperor Protects  Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Imperial Guard  Rejoice, For We Have Returned  Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Necron  Ere We Go, Boyz!  Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Orks  My Armour is Contempt  Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Marines  The Patient Hunter Gets the Prey  Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Tau  Crazed Fanatics  Capture the Chaos Stronghold in Soulstorm  You Shall Cause Suffering No Longer  Capture the Dark Eldar Stronghold in Soulstorm  Soul Black Shadows of Death  Capture the Eldar Stronghold in Soulstorm  Witness Your Doom!  Capture the Imperial Stronghold in Soulstorm  Scrap Metal  Capture the Necron Stronghold in Soulstorm  Not Kunnin’ Enough  Capture the Ork Stronghold in Soulstorm  Death to the Corpse God and His Servants  Capture the Sisters Stronghold in Soulstorm  The Road to Disappointment  Capture the Marine Stronghold in Soulstorm  Not So Great Anymore  Capture the Tau Stronghold in Soulstorm  An Offering to the Dark Gods  Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Chaos  Raise our standard! Let it strike fear!  Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Dark Eldar  I Taldeer you so!  Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Eldar  Live to Fight Another Day  Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Imperial Guard  We Are Legion  Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Necrons  Clobber Da Whole Lot Of Them!  Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Orks  Our Emperor, Deliver Us  Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Sisters of Battle  Eternal Service  Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Space Marines  We Will Deliver the Killing Blow  Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Tau  Let the Galaxy Burn!  Kill 666 Space Marines as Chaos  Lesser Kin  Kill 1000 Eldar as Dark Eldar  The War in Heaven  Kill 1000 Necrons as Eldar  Breakdown in Negotiations  Kill 1000 Tau as Imperial Guard  Ancient Slaughter  Kill 1000 Eldar as Necrons  Armageddon  Kill 1000 Imperial Guard as Orks  Purifying Flame  Kill 1000 Chaos as Sisters of Battle  Suffer Not The Xenos To Live  Kill 1000 Orks as Space Marines  Fire Superiority  Kill 1000 Imperial Guard as Tau  The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future  Kill 40,000 enemy units  Neophyte  Defeat the easy AI in skirmish  Battle-Brother  Defeat the standard AI in skirmish  Lieutenant  Defeat the hard AI in skirmish  Captain  Defeat the harder AI in skirmish  Chapter Master  Defeat the insane AI in skirmish  Yes, Yes! We Will Work Faster!  Build all structures as Chaos in a single match  The Dark City  Build all structures as Dark Eldar in a single match  Craft World  Build all structures as Eldar in a single match  Sanctum Manufactorum  Build all structures as Imperial Guard in a single match  Tomb World  Build all structures as Necrons in a single match  Build It Right Up For You!  Build all structures as Orks in a single match  Sanctum Sororitas  Build all structures as Sisters of Battle in a single match  Chapter Planet  Build all structures as Space Marines in a single match  Spheres of Expansion  Build the Tau Coalition Center  Master of the Forge  Add 50 special weapons to squads  One Amongst Untold Billions  Reinforce 100 units  Complete Annihilation  Achieve Total Score of 40000  Praise the Machine God  Achieve Technology Score of 1000  Death Be Thy Compass  Achieve Military Score of 1500  Exactis Extremis  Achieve Resources Score of 30000  Departmento Munitorum  Gather 20000 requisition  Greatest Generation  Gather 10000 power  Master Tactician  Capture 100 strategic points  Blood, Sweat and Boltguns  Capture 10 critical locations  Spirit of the Machine, Hear My Prayer  Capture 10 relics  Placing Charges  Raze 100 buildings  Blood for the Blood God  Deploy a Chaos Bloodthirster  Dark Dais Ahead  Deploy a Dark Eldar Dais  Bloody Handed  Deploy an Eldar Avatar  Ready to Win the War, Sir!  Deploy an Imperial Guard Baneblade  Monolithic  Deploy a Necron Monolith  Don't Poke Da Squiggoth  Deploy an Ork Squiggoth  Salvation Through Annihilation  Deploy a Sisters of Battle Living Saint  Death Has Arrived  Deploy a Space Marine Land Raider  That's Gnarly  Deploy a Tau Greater Knarloc    General  • Fixed a rare crash on startup – potentially seen when running a virtual machine    Gameplay  • Jump Movement – updated all squads with a jump movement or attack to fix cases where some of the units would successfully jump then teleport back to the start…

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